jstrong

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by jstrong 7y ago
I like make, but I had a lot more luck with just/justfile, which is similar to make conceptually but with less idiosyncratic syntax/execution.
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by jstrong 7y ago
I have a very low tolerance for UI lags in my text editor. I'm a vim user, but can't use macvim, since it tends to be laggy, for instance. I find the jetbrains IDEs to be painful to use for the same reason. python being slow is no
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by jstrong 7y ago
python ... or electron. choices, choices!
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by jstrong 7y ago
lost me at 'python'. if this is still fast in another year I will be amazed.
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by jstrong 7y ago
my argument is more, Elizabeth Warren is definitely an existential threat to Facebook and it would be wildly imprudent for the CEO to treat her election as anything less.
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by jstrong 7y ago
does anyone think Mark Zuckerberg is factually wrong that Elizabeth Warren poses an existential threat to his business? If not, why are we supposed to be shocked, shocked! at his comments saying so?
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by jstrong 7y ago
> e.g. equity trading
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by jstrong 7y ago
Personally I am very excited for a couple years from now when prices on used dual socket epyc servers come down because I want a workstation with 128 physical cores. It will be glorious.
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by jstrong 7y ago
I noticed that you call `unsync_load` on the `AtomicU32`, which confused me, and I later saw that there is a custom `AtomicU32` in the loom library. Can you explain what `unsync_load` is and whether it will be provided by the atomics librar
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by jstrong 7y ago
in my experience, "async" allows you to write the code linearly, but now the code is executed out of order, which is actually much more confusing (for me) to debug and deal with. however, I'm interested to try the rust versio
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by jstrong 7y ago
still have to be careful about data races and thread synchronization, though: julia> xs = [1] 1-element Array{Int64,1}: 1 julia> for j in 1:1024 d = @spawn xs[1] += 1 end julia&g
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by jstrong 7y ago
(my) Lesson Learned: don't use spark.
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by jstrong 7y ago
yeah, after nanometers we've still got picometers, femtometers, attometers, angstrom, fermi ... lots of room before we hit planck! intel, get your shit together!
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by jstrong 7y ago
the news business has been in economic free fall for the last two decades. at this point, most local newspapers have already folded. have you heard of Newsweek? print ad revenue (formerly their bread and butter) falls year after year, and o
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by jstrong 7y ago
coming from rust - I spent three hours last night trying to build scylla (and failed). problem after problem, baffling errors, etc. -- what I would consider dependency hell. have you tried cargo? I'm actually curious what your perspect
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by jstrong 7y ago
it has one major impact: every site I visit I have to click an annoying box acknowledging how the internet works.